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KENT — The Board of Finance voted unanimously on Friday, May 6, to send budgets submitted by the boards of selectmen and education to a town meeting vote.
The board’s vote immediately followed public comment during the annual budget hearing.
KENT —Joining with two other Region One towns, the Kent Board of Selectmen approved a resolution to be sent to state officials opposing planned reductions in services at Sharon Hospital.
The unanimous action was taken at their regular meeting on Thursday, April 21.
Starting up old No. 5 at the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association in Kent last weekend. Photo by Lans Christensen
KENT — A perfect spring weekend was in place for the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association’s (CAMA) 17th annual Power-Up exposition.
COVID-19 canceled last year’s event, so both visitors and exhibitors were delighted to be back on CAMA grounds and enjoying the impressive collection of antique machines on April 30 and May 1.
KENT — After reviewing reductions made to the selectmen’s town budget proposal for 2022-23, the Board of Finance voted unanimously to approve the proposed budget package at its meeting on Wednesday, April 20.
Marge Smith, curator at the Kent Historical Society, inspected a large beaver pelt on a stretcher at Seven Hearths as KHS trustees Roger Gonzales, left, and Jeffrey Morgan look on. Photo by Debra A. Aleksinas
KENT — A recently uncovered pelt room at Seven Hearths, an imposing, pre-Revolutionary house that served as a fur-trading post and general store centuries ago when Kent was a vast wilderness, is now the recipient of a prestigious state preservation award.
KENT — Years of denial of petitions to the courts and subsequent failures in appellate cases have not ended the campaign for federal recognition on the part of the Schaghticoke Indian Tribe (SIT) and their claims to ancestral reservation land in the town of Kent.
Kent Land Trust Land Manager Clark Gifford transformed a rolled hay bale into a roadside attraction he dubbed “Johnny Bee Good” in support of Kent’s Pollinator Pathway Project. Photo by Lans Christensen
KENT — Close mowing and pesticide spraying may be a thing of the past in some areas of Kent: The Board of Selectmen encouraged a Pollinator Pathway Partnership program at their regular meeting on March 17.
KENT — Following four years of Streetscape Committee meetings, new sidewalks for Kent are expected to be built soon.
Photo by Lans Christensen
Photographer Lans Christensen optimistically titled some photos “Last snow of the year …maybe” when he sent them to us on Thursday, March 10. They showed farm and forest scenes from Kent, including the one above. Of course, new snow fell on Saturday, March 12, just as the Thursday snow was beginning to melt.
KENT —Representatives of boards and commissions have been meeting regularly in area towns to draft state-mandated plans for affordable housing and gain approval of those plans before a June 30 deadline.
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